Journal of medical ethics
Jul 23, 2025
In his recent paper Hatherley discusses four reasons given to support mandatory disclosure of the use of machine learning technologies in healthcare, and provides counters to each of these reasons. While I agree with Hatherley's conclusion that such ...
Journal of medical ethics
Jul 23, 2025
It is commonly accepted that clinicians are ethically obligated to disclose their use of medical machine learning systems to patients, and that failure to do so would amount to a moral fault for which clinicians ought to be held accountable. Call thi...
Radiography (London, England : 1995)
Apr 13, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Integrating decision support mechanisms utilising artificial intelligence (AI) into medical radiation practice introduces unique challenges to accountability for patient care outcomes. AI systems, often seen as "black boxes," can obscur...
Journal of medical ethics
May 9, 2024
I discuss an influential argument put forward by Hatherley in the Drawing on influential philosophical accounts of interpersonal trust, Hatherley claims that medical artificial intelligence is capable of being reliable, but not trustworthy. Furtherm...
Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany)
Oct 6, 2023
Hardly any other field of application of artificial intelligence (AI) needs more ethics by design than medicine; however, if a deep integration of ethical principles succeeds there is a chance of "deep healing", for each individual and also for medic...
Science and engineering ethics
Jun 20, 2019
Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents a theory-'ethical behaviourism'-which holds that robots can have si...
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Aug 6, 2018
This article investigates both the claims made for, and the dangers or opportunities posed by, the development of (allegedly), aspiring or "would-be" autonomous vehicles and other artificially superintelligent machines. It also examines the dilemmas ...
Science and engineering ethics
Apr 16, 2014
The enduring innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics offer the promised capacity of computer consciousness, sentience and rationality. The development of these advanced technologies have been considered to merit rights, however these can ...
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Jul 1, 2021
The suggestion has been made that future advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that passes some consciousness-related criteria should be treated as having moral status, and therefore, humans would have an ethical obligation to consider its well-being...
Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere
Jan 1, 2019
The use of artificial intelligence and robotics in health care means ethical principles need to be established. Artificial and human intelligence must be implemented in such as way as to complement each other. From humanism to anthropotechnics, the d...